Set Report: Walk the Line Movie

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Joaquin Phoenix stars as country music legend Johnny Cash and Witherspoon is his wife and bandmate June Carter. The film is described as a nontraditional biopic centering on a snapshot of Cash's life with a focus on his younger years shifting to Memphis when country started to heat up. We got an email from a retired Air Force Captain who was an extra in the film that we just had to share.

I worked three days in Memphis and had a ball. On the final day, the Folsom Prison Concert, Joaquin and his band were on stage, I was an inmate, they were singing the movie song when suddenly a large speaker on the right side of the stage caught fire!

Joaquin looked at the flaming speaker, looked out at us, looked at his band members and they just broke out with the song "Burning Ring of Fire", while technicians were frantically getting fire extinguishers and putting the blaze out! It was really a moment to remember.

I don't know if the cameras were still rolling or not but it was classic, and the inmate audience performed their best fan response.

Thanks for writing Captain and giving us this funny report from the set of Walk the Line. The movie stars Joaquin Pheonix, and is scheduled to come to cinemas November 18th, 2005.